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The gang was sitting in the screaming room, most were just sitting, waiting for the punishment to be over, “This sucks!” Jax spoke up through all the screaming, “For once, I agree with you!” Ragatha responded, Oliver was pacing around as he usually did when this type of punishment was handed out, but as he paced, he saw Pomni sitting in the corner, not even taking into account that souls were screaming around her.
Oliver decided to go over to see if Pomni was okay, “Hey Pomni.” Oliver said to her, “What?” Pomni asked, “Oh yeah. Hey Pomni, are you feeling alright!?” Oliver shouted. “Ugh, not really!” She responded, “I don’t know what to do now that the shadow figure was an NPC!” She continued on, Oliver decided to sit down, “Yeah, with that thing being an NPC, I’m stumped on what went wrong with Jax!” Oliver replied.
Suddenly, the gang were picked up and thrown out of the room, “Woah, woah, what just happened!?” Jax asked, that’s when Caine appeared, “Alright, punishment is over!” He said, “Hey, can you tone it down, my ears are ringing like crazy.” Jax muttered, “Sorry, but anyways, it’s time for you all to rest.” Caine spoke, the gang agreed and decided to head to bed.
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Pomni was laying down in her bed, but she was having trouble sleeping, all she could think about was the abstraction and how some outside force was doing it, but…nothing showed to prove it, soon, she found herself drifting to sleep, not because she was tired, but because she forced herself to.
But her nap was soon interrupted by banging at her door, “POMNI!!” Ragatha's voice came from the other side, Pomni quickly jumped out of bed and hurried over to the door and opened it, “Ragatha, what’s wrong?” Pomni asked, “No time to explain, come with me.” Ragatha told her Pomni didn’t question any further, she just followed along with her.
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Ragatha had brought Pomni into Oliver’s room, what she saw shocked her, there was this strange liquid leaking from Oliver’s bed, then a horrible thought struck her, “Where’s Oliver, is he…?” Pomni was asking, “Don’t worry, he’s fine, he’s right here.” Ragatha explained, Oliver then appeared out the other side of Ragatha, “Jeez, don’t scare me like that.” Pomni said, “Sorry.” Oliver replied.
With that out of the way, the gang approached the strange liquid, “W-What happened?” Pomni asked, “I don’t know, I was gonna sleep, but then… I saw something seeping from the wall and well, here we are.” Oliver explained, “And let me tell you, this strange liquid looks pretty similar.” He added.
Pomni looked back at the strange liquid oozing from the bed, “Yeah…it does?” She muttered, “Do you know where it came from?” Pomni then asked them. “No, we don’t.” Ragatha responded, “Yeah, I’ve looked everywhere in this room for any type of leak, but no nothing, this came from somewhere else.” Oliver replied, after he finished his sentence, the liquid suddenly moved, “Woah” Ragatha yelled.
“Did…did that stuff just move!?” Pomni shouted, “Yes…Yes it did.” Oliver replied, fear gripping his voice, Pomni then thought to herself, “Guys, come with me.” Pomni told them, “Why, where are we heading?” Oliver asked her, “If this stuff is alive, then it’s coming from somewhere, so come on, let’s not waste any time.” Pomni told them, they agreed and started off.
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The crew were walking down the hallway, as they did, Pomni was looking around, “Keep your eyes out guys, if this stuff is alive, it could be anywhere.” She told the others, as they continued down the hall, they suddenly heard a noise which scared them all, “Ragatha, what’s that?” Oliver asked, clutching onto her, “It’s okay Oliver, I’ll protect you.” Ragatha responded.
The noise appeared to be coming from the entrance to the rooms, Pomni decided to get closer to see what it was, the closer she got, the louder the noise became, right as she was gonna pear onto the other side, Bubble came out of nowhere, “AHH!” Pomni screamed, “Oh, hey guys!” Bubble responded, “W-W-Bubbles, what are you doing here!?” Pomni asked as she was getting up.
“Just snooping around, that’s all.” Bubbles responded, the bubble suddenly got a bit closer to Pomni, “You got any vomit for me to lic…” The Bubble was saying before Ragatha came over and popped the bubble, “Thanks.” Pomni responded, “It’s nothing, that bubble is always super weird.” Ragatha responded, “Well, that wasn’t helpful.” Oliver responded.
As the gang was wondering what to do next, they heard the strange stuff slip out from Oliver’s room, they turned to see it fly across the room and out the entrance. “It must be going somewhere important!” Pomni shouted, “Well, what are we waiting for, let’s get going!” Oliver said, the gang quickly started off after the liquid.
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The gang chased the stuff out of the tent, that’s when they think they found the source where it’s coming from, the stuff dipped into the lake and disappeared, the gang approached the lake, “That where the source is.” Pomni told the others, “So…who’s going down?” Oliver asked, the crew looked at each other, slowly, Ragatha and Oliver turned to Pomni, “What, why me!?” She shouted, Ragatha and Oliver just starred.
It wasn’t long before they had Pomni hooked up to a fishing net with a rope tied on her waist, “Again, why me?” Pomni asked, Ragatha and Oliver looked at each other, “Cause…we think you’ll do the best out of any of us.” Ragatha replied, Pomni just gave a blank star, “Just do it.” Oliver said, “Okay, fine.” Pomni replied, with that, she dived in.
Of course, she had to hold her breath as they for some reason had to breath in this digital world, she had some goggles on so she could see the opening, she swam around a bit, coming up for air a couple times, after about 10-15 minute of searching, she found it, the liquid was coming from the Void, Pomni thought of how to patch it up, then she remembered when she first arrived.
She swam closer and closer until she had finally swam into the Void, after that, Pomni just waited there, (Any second now.) She thought to herself, after a few moments, Caine suddenly appeared and brought her back up to the surface, “Pomni, you can’t travel into the Void.” He said to her, “Void?” Ragatha and Oliver asked, “Yeah, that weird liquid stuff is coming from a ripple down there.” Pomni explained, pointing.
She then turned to Caine, “This liquid stuff has been plaguing us…okay, not really, but still, it's causing some havoc, can you fix it.” Pomni explained to him, “Certainly!” Caine responded, she snapped his fingers, the liquid was destroyed and the hole was patched up, “Thanks for alerting me guys, we can’t have any bugs around here.” Caine said before he disappeared.
“You know, for as much pain he could be, he can be very helpful.” Oliver said, “Yeah, I agree.” Ragatha said, the crew then started thinking about the liquid, “Getting back to the liquid, it seemed familiar.” Oliver said, “Yeah, it looked like…” Ragatha was saying before she and Oliver looked at each other, “Ug guys, what’s going on?” Pomni asked, “That liquid came from the cellar, where those abstractions lay.” Oliver said.
“What…” Pomni was about to say before she remembered her first day here, “Oh, I see what you’re talking about?” Pomni answered, they then thought of something else, “Let’s check my room, see if it messed anything up.” Oliver told them, “Sounds like a plan.” Pomni replied, as the crew heard off, they knew full well that they had found a new clue regarding Jax’s Abstraction.